6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, with an eternal Gospel (good news) to tell to the inhabitants of the earth, to every race and tribe and language and people.
Here we are shown the Truth that the Gospel of Jesus and of the Kingdom is being preached everywhere during the Great Tribulation. In the midst of all of this turmoil the Gospel is still preached with great power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. The Church has to be around during the Great Tribulation to preach it! The Church has always been the instrument that our Father has worked through to share the Truth that sets men free! How will people hear without a preacher? Romans 10:14
7 And he cried with a mighty voice, Revere God and give Him glory (honor and praise in worship), for the hour of His judgment has arrived. Fall down before Him; pay Him homage and adoration and worship Him Who created heaven and earth, the sea and the springs (fountains) of water.
As the anti-christ is calling for people to falsely worship, we see here in verse 7 that Jesus is still alive, He is still living to testify of the Truth, and He still is empowering believers. The angel, the messenger, is flying in midair, this shows us that all of the inhabitants of the earth are hearing the gospel, just as Jesus proclaimed that they would. The 144,000 special messenger’s are being used by our Father to preach the Truth, the two witnesses are being used, and all who are in Christ that still remain on the earth are being used to preach the Truth of the Kingdom. The Gospel is being preached to the entire world during these last days, including Israel, as it never has been before.
And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end. Matthew 24:14
8 Then another angel, a second, followed, declaring, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She who made all nations drink of the [maddening] wine of her passionate unchastity [ idolatry].
John is shown here that Babylon has fallen. The anti-christ hasn’t fallen yet, so it cannot be him or his false church. The false prophet has not fallen, so it could not be America. So what is Babylon? I believe that Babylon is the world’s economy. Nothing has ever made nations act with evil as much as money. The love of money is the root of all evil and the nations of the world have always been all about the love of money and the power that it brings! During the Great Tribulation inflation will be running wild; a measure of wheat will cost a full day’s wages. War will be sucking up the wealth of nations like crazy. Taxes will have to be enormous to cover it all. And the government will be controlling every aspect of society and commerce. The worlds system and its economy will have failed. Nothing will be able to get done, commerce will cease to exist, money will be useless, and society will be in utter ruin. Even if the society never was industrialized, the natural disasters that our Father will release during these times will destroy agriculture and live stock the world around.
But be of good cheer, we have Jesus and He will use us to give food and water in time of need, Matthew 24:44-46. We are not appointed to wrath, but to righteousness, 1 Thessalonians 5:9. We will have peace that passes all understanding during the great Tribulation, Philippians 4:7, and we will be fed and supplied water abundantly and miraculously during these times. Our needs will be met according to our Father’s riches and glory by Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:19! We will be more than conquerors through Christ, Romans 8:37, because He will be greater within us than anything that is in this world, 1 John 4:4.
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